12:01 AM,
Mar. 30, 2007

President Bush honors the Tuskegee Airmen on Thursday at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Capitol.

Written by

Ana Radelat
Montgomery Advertiser

WASHINGTON -- Montgomery resident Carrol Woods was shot down over Greece by Nazi fire during World War II. On Thursday, he was thanked for it.

Woods, 87, is one of about 300 surviving Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots and their crews who were honored with the nation's top civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal, at a crowded ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.